UPDATE: Who us? Vallas and illegal Bridgeport Board of Education trumpet their commitment to “process.” - Wait, What?

Who us? Vallas and illegal Bridgeport Board of Education trumpet their commitment to “process.” - Wait, What?:

The Bizarre and Upside Down World of Education Reform

by jonpelto

When it comes to Connecticut government and politics, the term “Local Control” is the closest we come to the notion that some concepts are so sacred that it would be more accurate if we simply referred to them as “the word of God,” and called it a day.

While reasonable people might secretly discuss the negative impact Connecticut’s absurdly small geo-political units (read cities and towns) have on racial isolation, poverty, educational achievement, property tax rates and equity in education funding, the fact is, that the issues are so fraught with political ramifications, that one MUST insert the word “voluntary” before any concepts associated with regionalism, desegregation or other attempts to break down the walls that surround our 169 towns.

But last February, Governor Malloy, a Democrat, proposed legislation that would give his 

Who us? Vallas and illegal Bridgeport Board of Education trumpet their commitment to “process.”

by jonpelto

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice.  Then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain

There is simply no doubt that Mark Twain was a Connecticut visionary…

And controversy continues to surround one school board in particular – Bridgeport’s illegal Board of Education.

Like a truck careening down a mountain, things started to go bad when members of the board, all of who were appointed by the Malloy Administration, followed the Administration’s directive and hired Paul Vallas.

The Board then stood by silently when Vallas swept into Bridgeport and signed more than a dozen no-bid contracts so that he could bring in a plethora of outside consultants, at a cost of $500 to $900 a day.  It turned out that many of these “outside experts” even